A/N: Okay! This is the third chapter! I looked at all the review and they all got me motivated to hurry up and publish this and the other chapters as soon as possible. Thanks for all your wonderful review and Advice. Please keep R&R ing!
Kirihara: When are you gonna hook me up with Mako?
Me: Soon. Mischievous Smile
Kirihara: I can't wait too long.
Me: Well I'll think of a good way to hook you guys up.
Mako: Yay!
Azul: Oi! Kikumaru-g. I want to tell the others soon that me and Syusuke-kun are a couple.
Me: Okay, I make it in this chapter.
Azul: Yay
Me: Okay everybody no more questions I have to start the chapter or else you're not going to get what you want sooner Okay?
Everybody: Okay.
Me: Okay here's the disclaimer and the new chapter.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Prince of tennis (Tennis no oujisama)
Chapter Three: The Secret's out!
A few days have passed since the Hyotei Match. It was Monday. Azul and Mako didn't have time to eat so Azul just grabbed 2 cereal bars for her and Mako. They walked to school eating their cereal bar.
"Mako do you have tennis club practice today?" Azul asked after swallowing the last of her cereal bar.
"Yeah, we have practice every weekday." Mako said. "Yeah you kinda have to wait everyday. Sorry."
Azul shook her head. "It's okay. I can go watch my new boyfriend's practice." Azul had told Mako that she told Tezuka and Oishi and they promised to keep it a secret until Azul and Fuji wanted to let it out in the open.
"Nyaa? Did I hear that Azul has a boyfriend?" a voice said behind them and they looked behind them and it was Kikumaru.
"Yup" Mako said.
Azul sighed. "Guess there's no getting out of this one huh?" Kikuamru and Mako nodded.
"Is it one of the regulars?" Kikumaru asked. Azul didn't want to answer so Mako nodded for her. "Okay, there's Tezuka, Fuji, Inui, Kawamura, Oishi, Momo, Kaidoh, Ryoma and me." Kikumaru wrote in down on a notebook when they were walking to school. "Cross out Tezuka (Cousin). Then Ryoma, Momo and Kaidoh. (Too young). Also Kawamura and Inui because you hardly talk to them. I have to cross out me because I'm not your boyfriend." Kikumaru looked at his list whent hey walked through the school gates. "That leaves Oishi and Fuji. Who is it?"
Azul still didn't want to answer so Mako decided to answer for her. "She calls him Syusuke."
Kikumaru was shocked. "EH? Fuji is your boyfriend?" Azul nodded slightly. Azul say Fuji so she ran up to him not wanting to stay in that conversation. Mako and Kikumaru ran up to them. "Fuji are you really Azul's boyfriend?" Kikumaru asked when they were putting on their indoor shoes.
Fuji just smiled like always. "Guess there's no getting out of this huh?" Kikumaru and Mako nodded. (They should be partners in crime). "It's true." He said.
Azul just sighed. "We might as well let all the rest of the regulars know." Kikumaru told them to prove that they were a couple. "Fine." She kissed Fuji on the cheek when no one was looking. "There, happy?" She asked them. They nodded.
Sakuno was on the other side. She overheard them saying that Azul was Fuji's new girlfriend. Then she heard Kikumaru say: "You didn't have kiss him." When she got to her first class Tomoka was waiting for her.
Tomoka started yapping away about Ryoma then she said, "Azul-sempai always is allowed on the court and she's close to the regulars. I wish I could do that."
Sakuno decided to speak. "Fuji and Azul are a couple."
Tomo slightly slammed her down on the desk. Not hard enough to catch everybody's attention. "How do you know?"
"Well, I kind of overheard them. Kikumaru-sempai ask Fuji-sempai if Azul was Fuji-sempai's girlfriend. He said yes and Kikumaru-sempai said to prove it so I heard Kikumaru say you didn't have to kiss him and I left before I could hear anything else."
"This is a big scoop." Tomoka said. Since she was such a big mouth she accidentally said something out loudly. "Fuji-sempai has a girlfriend is." All the freshman looked at Tomo.
All the freshmen in the class looked at her. Even Ryoma who was hardly ever interested in anything even looked at Tomo. 'Fuji-sempai has a girlfriend?' Ryoma thought. He just put his head back on the table and watched Horio ask who the girl was. He heard her say why should I tell you? and other kinds of things. Just when he thought things were quiet again Tomo and Sakuno came over.
"Ohayo Ryoma-sama!" Tom's cheerful voice said.
"Ohayo Ryoma-kun." Sakuno said softly.
"Ohayo" was all Ryoma said.
Tomo decided to talk up. "Did you hear? Fuji-sempai has a girlfriend now."
Ryoma wanted to know who it was. "Who is his new girlfriend?"
'Ryoma-kun is actually talking to us.' Sakuno thought. 'He must really want know who Fuji-sempai's new girlfriend is.'
"I guess I'll tell Ryoma-sama because he wants to know." Tomoka said. "It's the new girl, Azul-sempai." Then class started and Ryoma was thinking about it all throught the class. What Tomoka, Sakuno and Ryoma didn't know was that Horio and the other two freshmen had heard them.
Lunchtime came around. Fuji and Azul were walking to cafeteria. When they were almost inside Momo ran up to them. "Fuji-sempai, Azul-sempai why didn't you tell me you guys are a couple!" He said loudly because he was surprised. People in line looked at the three.
Azul rested her forehead in her hand. She sighed. "You didn't have to say it so loudly. Now more people know."
"Sorry" Momo said.
"Its okay." Fuji said.
"How did you find out? Please don't tell me Mako told you." Azul asked. If Mako told Momo, Azul was going to kill her.
"The three freshman were talking about it and people heard and now most of the juniors know about this. It's soon bound to be known around school." Momo said.
"Oh my gosh, now the whole school knows." Azul almost fainted. Fuji had to stop her from falling. "Thanks, Syusuke-kun."
"You call him Syusuke too!" Momo said.
Azul now got sort of mad. "You're making things worse."
"Sorry." He said and walked with them to where all the rest of regulars were. She sat down and didn't say anything.
Mako walked into the cafeteria. She was talking with two girls. Azul got up and went to Mako. Her two friends were staring at Azul. "Please tell me you didn't tell them."
"I didn't tell them, they found out a different way." Mako replied. Azul looked at her Mako's two friends. They nodded. Azul just went to sit back down to Fuji. Mako stood in line to get a drink with her friends, Gina and Kana. Mako told Azul she was going to eat lunch with Gina and Kana.
Azul didn't really care if Mako was going to eat with her. She took out her lunch and opened it. She said. "Ittadakimasu" very calmly and started eating.
Fuji also took out his bento and started eating. Azul looked over at what he had. He had sushi. She took a piece of the maki and ate it. Everybody looked at her. She just swallowed the sushi. Everybody stared at her. "What?" she asked them.
"Uh… Azul, you just ate a piece of wasabi sushi." Kikumaru said. He hated wasabi.
"Oh it was?" Azul said. "It didn't really taste spicy." Everybody was amazed. She didn't think wasabi was spicy. She was just like Fuji. She just laughed and took a drink of her water.
After lunch Azul had Math. She didn't really like it but she did pretty well in math. She sat in her seat next to Fuji and took out her math notebook and a pencil. She never used pen in math. She turned to an open page and copied the problems on the board. She just solved the last problem when the bell rung. 'Ha no homework for math' she thought and packed her notebook and pencil in her bag.
Her next class was science. None of the regulars were in her class. She sat at her assigned seat on a lab table and waited for the teacher. In science they had to do an experiment with an assigned partner. Her partner was a girl name Kyoko. They finished their experiment and the teacher said they could talk or something, just don't disturb the rest of the class.
"Azul-kun?" Kyoko asked when they putting everything back.
"Yes?" Azul replied
"Is it true that you're Fuji-san girlfriend?"
"Guess the whole school knows." Azul put away the last of the supplies and sat back down. Kyoko also sat back in her seat next to Azul.
"Can I ask you another question?" Kyoko asked
"Sure."
"Do you play tennis?"
"Yeah."
"Why aren't you in the tennis club?"
"I don't really want to be in a club."
"Your sister says you're really good."
Azul heard the word sister. "You're in the tennis club?"
Kyoko nodded. "I'm one of the girls regular."
"I play tennis when I want to. I really don't want to play tennis every single school day."
Kyoko decided to be quiet and the bell rung and school was over. Azul picked up her bag and walked to the stairs. Fuji was waiting for her. They walked to the tennis courts and Azul sat on the grass by the courts where the tennis club practices and took out her homework. She wanted to finish it so she didn't have to do it later. She and Mako agreed to go play street tennis today after school today. Mako wanted to try the doubles challenge. She finished her homework before she knew it and watched Tezuka come to her.
"Come sit on the bench. I have an announcement." He told her when he walked by she just went and sat on the bench like Tezuka told her. All the boys came and Fuji came up to her.
"I don't know why I'm sitting here either. Tezuka-kun just told me to sit on the bench." Azul told them.
AT THE GIRL"S TENNIS PRACTICE
The captain Sanami Miyo came into the courts. "Okay freshmen today we will not need your help but you are coming to watch what we are going to do today."
Mako got confused. "What are we going to do?"
"I'm going to explain what we are going to do." The captain said "The regulars are going to play against the boy regulars. It only practice matches. You guys will warm up when we will go to the boys tennis club courts."
All the girls got excited. Today they were playing against the boys. The captain continued with the announcement. "The players that are playing are: Hisaga Yuki, Jinishi Amaya, Akuto Kyoko, Komi Saki, Akashi Hana, Kimu Rin, Minamura Mako and myself. For the boys are: Kawamura Takashi, Inui Sadaharu, Kikumaru Eiji, Oishi Shuuichiro, Kaidoh Kaoru, Echizen Ryoma, and Fuji Syusuke."
"Wait." Kyoko said. "There are only seven for the boys, who is the 8th player?"
Miyo just smiled. "You'll find out when we play. The playing won't be announced unitl we get there."
AT THE BOYS TENNIS COURTS
Tezuka cam into the courts and everybody looked at him. "Today the regulars will be playing practice matches the girl regulars. After I announce who's playing the regulars are to warm up." Everybody looked around. Practice Matches with the girl regulars? "Okay the girls that are playing are: Hisaga Yuki, Jinishi Amaya, Akuto Kyoko, Komi Saki, Akashi Hana, Kimu Rin, Minamura Mako and Sanami Miyo. For our team is: Kawamura Takashi, Inui Sadaharu, Kikumaru Eiji, Oishi Shuuichiro, Kaidoh Kaoru, Echizen Ryoma, Fuji Syusuke."
"Who's the 8th player?" Inui asked. "Who's playing for you?"
Tezuka looked at Ryuzaki-sensei. She nodded. "I already got approval. The player who is taking my place is not n this tennis club. Miyo okayed this too. The person that will be taking my place is Minamura Azul."
Azul sat there shocked. She was playing for Tezuka? Everybody looked at her. "What?" Azul managed to say. "I'm playing against the girl regulars?"
Tezuka nodded. "I want you to show me how strong you have gotten. Go change and warm up with the rest of the boys." Azul nodded and took her clothes to go get changed.
"Tezuka. Why did you choose Azul to play for you, she isn't even in the girl's tennis club."
"I believe she is the right person to fit against who I was supposed to play against." He said. "Go warm up."
Azul came back in her tennis clothes and got her racket. She heard a ball come at her so she stopped it with her racket and she looked behind her. It was Ryoma. "I guess you're good enough to be put in Tezuka's spot." He said
Azul got up and tossed the ball back to Ryoma. "Warm up with me" she said before she walked.
"Okay" Ryoma said while following her. They went to the court.
"Hit a twist serve." She told him. "I can hit a twist perfectly but I can't return really good." Ryoma served a twist and Azul returned it perfectly and they went rallying for a while to warm up.
The girl regulars showed up and saw the boys warming up. Mako looked and something caught her eye. Azul was warming up with the boys. "Captain Miyo can I take a guess who is taking 8th spot?"
"Go ahead." Miyo said.
"Minamura Azul, 3rd year." Mako said. All the girls looked at her. A girl was the 8th player for the boys.
"Correct, it was Tezuka's request. Here's the line up." Miyo said. It was matched that Azul was playing against Kyoko.
The boys and Azul stopped when they saw the girls come. They saw Miyo walk into the other courts and tell them to warm up. They continued warming up. After a short time of warm up. The matches started. The 1st match was Jinishi vs Kawamura. Kawamura had won. The next match was Hisaga Yuki vs Inui Sadaharu. Yuki had won. The match before Azul's was Fuji vs Miyo. Fuji had won. Then it was Azul's match.
"Don't go easy on me." Azul said when they were shaking hands. "I saw you during warm-ups, you weren't even trying. Rough or Smooth?" Azul asked before spinning the racket.
"Rough" She said. It was smooth. Azul is serving.
Azul started her first serve with a twist. Kyoko couldn't return it. Azul decided to try out the new serve that Fuji had did at the Hyotei match. "I want to try another serve." She spun the ball and let it fall. She then hit a cut serve. "The serve will disappear." She told Kyoko when she saw the serve. It spun and then disappeared. "I didn't create that serve." She told Kyoko as the game went on Kyoko was crushed. Azul won 6-0. Kyoko couldn't even get a point. Azul was serious when she was playing tennis(Just like Kenshin). She walked off the court after she shook hands with Kyoko.
Practice was over for both tennis clubs and Azul didn't change because she was playing street tennis after. When she walked down with Fuji to the entrance to meet up with Mako. She saw Mako in her own tennis clothes. "Where are you guys going?" Fuji asked when they walked up to Mako.
"We're going to play street tennis. You have to play doubles but. Do you want to come Syusuke-kun?" Azul told him.
"I don't mind." He said
"Okay! Let's go!" Mako said and they walked to the street tennis place.
TBC…
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